I prefer to be contacted by email at "dt at cs•ucla•edu". Unfortunately, I often receive a greater volume of email than I can answer promptly, or sometimes even at all; my apologies.
If you are interested in joining my research group, thank you. Please refer to the following FAQ:
May I become your graduate student at UCLA?
I will ignore mass emails, but if you believe that we have substantial common research interests, then tell me about yourself in a personal email message. Please don't send me a big message with lots of attachments; instead, place your CV and other materials on your website and send me a brief, plain-text introductory message with the appropriate URLs. If I am impressed by your interests, background, and accomplishments, I will probably reply to your message and encourage you to apply for admission into our CS graduate program. Please understand, however, that I personally cannot offer you admission, so don't ask. Unlike some other schools, graduate admissions in the UCLA Computer Science Department are decided not by any individual member of the faculty, but by a faculty committee on a competitive basis taking into consideration the entire applicant pool in any particular year. You must submit a formal application in order to be considered for admission. If you would like to apply, please follow the instructions given here.
Would it be possible for me to obtain financial support?
Our admissions committee can offer full financial support fellowships only to a few of the highest-ranked PhD applicants to whom they offer admission. Many of our PhD students support themselves through departmental teaching assistantships (TA). Some are supported by their thesis advisors through research assistantships (RA). Most of our graduate students also do summer internships at companies, which pay them salaries.
Unfortunately, my available RA funds are currently committed to my existing PhD students, but there may be some new RA funding available in the area of medical image analysis.
What is the status of my application for admission into the CS graduate program?
Please inquire with the Computer Science Graduate Student Affairs Office at gradadm@cs.ucla.edu; Tel: 310-825-0060 or 310-825-6830; Fax: 310-206-8133.
I have been admitted to UCLA. May I join your group of graduate students?
Please arrange to meet with me so we can get to know each other better. However, before I can agree to take on a new PhD student, which is a serious, long-term academic commitment, and allocate space for them in our lab, I normally expect them to take one of my graduate courses and impress me with the quality of their work.
(attn: students in India) I am an undergraduate or graduate student at another university. Can I do an internship in your group at UCLA?
Not unless you have your own funding. My existing research funds are generally committed in full to my current students and postdocs, so I unfortunately cannot offer you any financial support. My apologies, but if you do not indicate in your message that you have full financial support and/or send a bulk email not addressed specifically to me, I will not bother to reply, as I get too many of these queries.
May I become your student at the University of Toronto?
I'm sorry, but I am not taking on any new students at the UofT.
Demetri Terzopoulos